In the wilderness of New Caledonia, scientists have discovered a living organism with the largest genome in the world. New research shows that the genome size of this fork fern species is estimated to... continue reading
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Biologists in New Zealand have found around 100 new species after exploring a rift some 5 kilometers beneath the sea. The organisms include some that scientists can't even identify, as well as a strange... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 months 3 weeks ago • 234 views • 2:07YouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 145 views • 15:29The biggest of instruments. Takes a half hour long video just to explore MOST of it.
posted by BSR 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 7 views • 29:53Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 275 views • 58:27It's time the news organizations began questioning the actions of police.
posted by dedstick 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 420 views • 13:45As you're thumbing through your seed catalogs for the upcoming season, you might be confused by common terms for seeds. Are GMO seeds bad? What even ARE heirloom seeds. And what about hybrids...they're... continue reading
posted by dedstick 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 38 views • 10:32Bee swarms solve problems by adhering to psychophysical laws, and make decisions democratically.
posted by newtboy 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 93 views • 15:50The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 726 views • 10:48Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 560 views • 10:12YT: Discover the world’s largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.
posted by Zawash 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,029 views • 6:28"With the first documentary from MinnMax, we travel back to 1971 to tell the surprising story of how a college project from Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger, and Don Rawitsch was donated to the state... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 1 week ago • 8 views • 23:08https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 3 months ago • 931 views • 7:59In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 432 views • 6:33YouTube description: This video demonstrate how differently the air spreads when coughing. This visualizes the high importance of the World Health Organization's behavioral recommendations for protection... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 427 views • 1:09Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 171 views • 57 secsWave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 877 views • 3:16YouTube description: Slimy, a little smelly, maybe even a little gross, but to many organisms, the oxic-anoxic transition is a shifting chemical boundary that has created a challenge for life...a challenge... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month ago • 125 views • 10:04YouTube description: As a quadriplegic, Álvaro Silberstein spent years believing he would never be able to visit Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. Then, he discovered a wheelchair designed... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 181 views • 2:57https://youtu.be/PZoaKzEXzi8 It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE! ... continue reading
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